China launches first BeiDou-equipped car that doesn't probe American GPS system for navigation

[Redaktion]

China has achieved a clean national security break with the US-based Global Positioning System when it comes to passenger vehicle navigation. Key privacy data, like the vehicle's destination or location, now stay local.

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[The Werewolf]

The GPS system is entirely passive. You don't 'probe' anything, rather you read a data stream broadcast from multiple satellites in the constellation and compute the location. All GPS access is 'local' and one way, from the satellite, to the receiver.

What China is doing is not being reliant on the US GPS system in case the US decides to turn full encryption back on. They're not the only or even the first to do this: the European Galileo system was the first global positioning satellite system after the US GPS, and it was created for the same reasons.